Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-27
THE BABY.
A Series 81 ieTer< ir0m Marian Har-
land 10 Those whG sre the Mothers
Of Immortal Beings.
How to Care for and Feed the Little
One About the Time the Trouble
some Teeth Begin to Come.
BY MARION HARLAND.
Copyright, lss7, by the Author.
Feeding tho Baby.

The proper food for the young of the
human species is the mothers milk.
That reads like a platitude not worth
printing In reality the force of it is so
often vitiated by the practice of mothers
and nurses that it cannot be pressed
home too forcioly. Yet obstacles to
nursing one's own child confront the
new mother more frequently than one
might suppose who Ass only studied
theoretically the PRINCIPLES which lead
the wisest thinkers to formulate the
truism Just given.
Some babies display O singular aYer-
sion to taking the mothers milk. have
seen a child less than twenty-tOur hours
old refuse to Close his lips on the nipple,
scream and struggle as with mortal pain
whenever the attempt was made to teach
him to do it. continuing the fight until,
The mother was exhausted and the nurse
distracted between dread Of injury to the
patient on the one hand and to the re-
calcitrant infant on the other. 1t is more
common for Older babies TO take whIm-
sical di~like to one breast and stuboornly
reject it until serious consequences 20 the
mother ensue. Instances are abundant
of children who wean themselves for no
apparent reason Undoubtedly some
cause does exist besides the caprice of
the diminutive autocrat, although the
effort to diviae it is mere guess WORK.
AS rule, he will succumb at length to
judiciOus measures s richly followed out.
Should the child resist from the first, the
nurse is generally to blame when the de-
cisi0n is reached that recourse to arti-
hciul food is unavoidable. She under
stands, far better than does the feeble,
inexperienced woman in her charge, what
may hang upon the result of
the struggle. Firm, gentle per-
siStence in the task of inducing
the little one to take what he is dis
posed to reject, and cheerful reinsurance
of the historical parent, terrified and
hurt that her baby should refuse her milk,
Wlll, in most cases, carry the day, pro-
yided bo:h the parties most interested
are in tolerable physical condition.
With very fragile children, the nourish-
ment may be pumped from the BREAST
and administered Il little AZ time, until
they ere strong enough to draw it for
themselves. But these are, happily,
extreme cases.
Occasionally we are told OF babies who
'hsd to be weaned because their mothers
milk did not agree with them" Violent
collie, nausea or intestinal disorders are
considered unfaliGg iDdices of this lido
syncrasy. No one except prudent and
skillful physician should take the respon-
sibill:y Of advising SO serious a step as
change of food in these circumstances,
however imminent the necessity may
seem to the uHprofessional observer.
The only lawful impeachment to the non
fultllment Of this sacred maternal duty
is the presence II actual organic disease
in the mother. When nursing the b&by
endan2ers her own life and that of the
helpless little thing who should take in
strength, not the seeds of mortal maladY
from her, the alternative is positive. The
child must be brought up on the bottle or
be consigned to 4 wet nurse. This last
word opens into a field too broad, too
full CT tragedy and of comedy to be ex-
breath and Christian meekness are youCh-
safed to US in bountful measure we may
venture within the boundaries
Many babies (two years ago, | would
have written, an immense majority Of
them thrive on mixture of two-thirds
}iliug water, enc third fresh, sweet, IN
SKINNED cows mil lightly sweetened
and given rather more than blood warm,
until the infant is six months old, or be
GINS to teeth. With The progress of dem
titiAn sHd She hardening OF the bones,
most children iced "etro- gel" nutri-
matchmaking that contains IL, =
muscle &uC -50ne-m making elements than.
even the mix of a healthy mother. Ma
tuTe Indicates this want in more than one
way-notably in The Inferior quality Of
tie nOurishmert stcreied for the Chili's1
use AS he becomes robust AID lag
for more and Tjcner aU.r,at
the supply dimiajsAeS and becomes p2Ar
a. d wattry. TIE uuther, censCien:iaus
in her resolutions 20 bring up Der infant
accaTcing % natural i&@s, sees him pine
and pal: while fTetful restlessness rohs
him OF the iaureis now ''as the btS:-be-
saved baby in Christendom.' While the
fiJR Of mix may seem as full as ever and
he takes it even more greedjly, he is hun
gry &ll the lime and pruCllims his evil
case in the only speech he can command
He is the paragon Of mortal caerubs, but
he cannot be merry when half-starved.
N st If the blame is laid on the eveT-cOn-
penient teeth, the sprOutipg OF which
,ilently Geslgnates the real nature Of the
wurldless angels discomfort.
So far IS my personal knowledge of the
and IF CTS OF the exceeding
great army Of substitutes and supple
melts goes | uuhC Sitatirgay recommend
CarnriCk's Soluble Food. There may be
DtheIs as excellent, but : have not met
with them, ana l hsre made trial of
many The Soluble Food is nutritious,
oalatable, easily prepared and rich in
phosphstes and other strengthening in
gradients. | should not speak thus plaips
y had | not had cogent reasons for BE-
ieviDg in it.
Cows milk, even when diluted with
boiling water, does not &gree with re-
Specialize minority OF babies, rating re-
Spectabi i:y according to numbers. The !
discovery gppails the mother with an i'm
preston OF utter hopelessness. Ii is g /
sort of violent removal OF land marks. !
Upon Whist can he su5sist IT not on e
''sWeet white nouriSbE.nt'' ordsined of |
The Lord for infant mammsls? In the
the knowledge that others |
! We tested and proved the value of an |
article OK infants diet which will keep the !
lur- cling alive and well, is boon which
{, for one, have not the heart or con-
science to withhold.
Do not give farinsceoEs food-cereals,
.rFoY-roO etc.-until the baby shows
isEs of "trollirg," or watering az the
mouth, the harbinger OF Geatition. Up
0 rhst time the saliva, which. is the ipdis-
,ersabie factor in digesling such food, is
ackiNg. The practice of thraSting linen
aglets OF crumbs or boiled rice, mixed